Did Newark serve me a slice of bamboozle Pie?

27 May 2021

I was excited to see Newark list approximately 2000 units of the Pi Pico in stock yesterday!!!

I immediately jumped at the opportunity to pick up a few of the new on the block $4 development boards. Yay!!!

When I placed my order, the Pi Pico was listed in stock:

Taking a peek at my order status this morning:

Expected ship date of Aug 23, 2021... Time will tell.

While I can't fault Newark for not being able to source enough units to meet the present market demand. I will be disheartened if they are unable to accurately allocate stock to customers.

Fingers crossed, I will end up with a Pi Pico in the coming days .

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ralphjy over 3 years ago in reply to scottiebabe

Not to make you feel bad, but I’ve had a back ordered item with Farnell since last June. Latest update was that it would be available in April, but I haven’t heard a peep. This was an item from a shopping cart that I won, so it’s hard to complain.

It’s interesting to see which items get sold out. In a lot of cases I find that they get bought up by distributors and you can find them in distribution. I got my RPi Picos from SparkFun when they first came out.

I find for Dev boards that I have better luck with Digikey and Mouser than Newark. I just got a Nano RP2040 Connect from the Arduino US store in Pennsylvania and they are now out of stock - but I still see them at distributors...

Exciting times, indeed
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scottiebabe over 3 years ago in reply to ralphjy

Still not sure what will happen, Newark keeps updating the expected ship date day by day, now expected 25/08/21. This may be a no soup for you story from Newark.

I just put in an order from one of the Raspberry Pi foundation approved Canadian resellers: BuyAPi.ca. Hopefully it won't be another it's "In Stock" bait and switch.

I wonder how many units have made to the into the hands of customers. I see articles stating the purchase orders for the Pi Pico are totaling near a million... Exciting times

Thank you for the Adafruit suggestion
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ralphjy over 3 years ago

I saw that Adafruit had some in stock this morning - not sure how many https://www.adafruit.com/product/4883?gclid=CjwKCAjwzMeFBhBwEiwAzwS8zJZ6qAaFVmQZUmrZxKl0o1IYN1W0P2Y2blDUpFQOgT9oHYgWHetM…
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